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Events for April 01, 2015
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering TalkWed, Apr 01, 2015
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process, a student led walking tour of campus, and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. During the engineering session we will discuss the curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on projects, entrepreneurial support programs, and other aspects of the engineering school. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process, and financial aid.
Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please make sure to check availability and register online for the session you wish to attend. Also, remember to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Prospective Undergrads and Families
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar
Wed, Apr 01, 2015 @ 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Reetuparna Das, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Talk Title: Architecting Components for a 10 Billion Transistor Processor
Abstract: Soon we may have processors with over ten billion transistors organized into hundreds of cores delivering supercomputer-like TeraFlops performance. To unlock this performance potential, however, we need dramatic improvements in processor efficiency to stay within the strict power budget. A significant source of inefficiency in today's general-purpose processors is that they tend to expend equal resources to varied applications without accounting for their individual needs. In this talk, I will present two solutions to address such inefficiency in both core and un-core parts of the processor. Composite cores eliminate needless power expended by out-of-order cores for applications with little or easy to exploit instruction-level parallelism. Aergia on-chip network prioritizes packets of network-sensitive applications to attain significantly higher throughput. I will also briefly discuss our on-going research that seeks to move compute close to storage in order to attain orders of magnitude improvement in efficiency for Big Data applications.
Biography: Reetuparna Das is a research faculty in the EECS Department at the University of Michigan. She is also the researcher-in-residence for the Center for Future Architectures Research (CFAR). Prior to this, she was a Research Scientist at Intel Labs in Santa Clara. Her research interests include computer architecture, and its interaction with software systems and VLSI technologies. Her most notable contributions include the design of application-aware and energy proportional on-chip interconnects for Kilo-core processors and fine-grained heterogeneous core architectures. She has received several awards including an IEEE Top Picks award, outstanding research assistant and outstanding teaching assistant awards from the CSE department at Pennsylvania State University. She has authored over 30 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park.
Host: Prof. Murali Annavaram
More Information: print_Das.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Estela Lopez
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The Business of Oil and Gas
Wed, Apr 01, 2015 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mr. Warner M. Williams, Retired Vice President Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company
Talk Title: Navigating Uncertainty
Series: USC Energy Institute Seminar Series
Host: USC Energy Institute
More Information: USCEI 2015 Seminar Series IIv3.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Juli Legat
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VSi2 Talk with Loren Bendele (CEO of Savings.com)
Wed, Apr 01, 2015 @ 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
University Calendar
RSVP HERE
Loren is the co-founder, President and CEO of Savings.com. He has experience starting, running and scaling high-growth businesses. Loren co-founded Savings.com in 2007 and sold the company to Cox Target Media in 2012. Loren remains on as President of Savings.com.
Loren is a powerhouse Executive Manager who knows how to build a team and make things happen. He will share his knowledge, expertise, and experiences on how to build a great company.
We hope to see you all there!Location: Kerckhoff Hall (KER) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Ethan Gromet Viterbi Student Innovation Institute
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Biochemical Feedback Control Theory for Synthetic Biocircuits
Wed, Apr 01, 2015 @ 01:15 PM - 02:15 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yutaka Hori, Caltech
Talk Title: Biochemical Feedback Control Theory for Synthetic Biocircuits
Abstract: Recent technological advancements have enabled us to construct
artificial biochemical networks, or biocircuits, that produce desired
dynamic functions such as bistability, oscillations and logic gates by
assembling DNA parts. This technology allows for many potential
engineering and biomedical applications, including the production of
high-value molecules and energy, and the sensing of hazardous chemicals,
using the cellular machinery of microbes. Toward a systematic
engineering of complex biological systems, model-based biocircuit design
has been increasingly important in recent years.
Biography: In this talk, we present a novel control theoretic framework to
systematically model, analyze and design the dynamics of biochemical
circuits along with experimental results. We first propose a general
feedback model representation of nonlinear biochemical dynamics. The
proposed modeling framework narrows the class of nonlinear systems down
to the degree where it allows us to develop rigorous and systematic
theoretical tools. We provide analytic and algebraic methods for
stability analysis and oscillator synthesis using the structure of the
system. Then, the utility of the developed tools is demonstrated by
experimentally implementing biochemical oscillator circuits. Finally, we
briefly show extensions of the proposed framework and discuss future
works along with some preliminary results.
Host: Prof. Edmond Jonckheere
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Talyia Veal
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Communications, Networks & Systems (CommNetS) Seminar
Wed, Apr 01, 2015 @ 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Paulo Tabuada, UCLA
Talk Title: Secure state-estimation and control for dynamical systems under adversarial attacks
Series: CommNetS
Abstract: Control systems work silently in the background to support much of the critical infrastructure we have grown used to. Water distribution networks, sewer networks, gas and oil networks, and the power grid are just a few examples of critical infrastructure that rely on control systems for its normal operation. These systems are becoming increasingly networked both for distributed control and sensing, as well as for remote monitoring and reconfiguration. Unfortunately, once these systems become connected to the internet they become vulnerable to attacks that, although launched in the cyber domain, have for objective the manipulation of the physical domain. In this talk I will discuss the problem of state-estimation and control for linear dynamical systems when some of the sensor measurements are subject to an adversarial attack. I will show that a separation result holds so that controlling physical systems under active adversaries can be reduced to a state-estimation problem under active adversaries. I will characterize the maximal number of attacked sensors under which state estimation is possible and propose computationally feasible estimation algorithms. For this, I will use ideas from compressed sensing and error correction over the reals while exploiting the dynamical nature of the problem. Time permitting, I will also report on more recent results using satisfiability module theory solvers.
Biography: Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received his "Licenciatura" degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico. Between January 2002 and July 2003 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending three years at the University of Notre Dame, as an Assistant Professor, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he established and directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory. Paulo Tabuada's contributions to cyber-physical systems have been recognized by multiple awards including the NSF CAREER award in 2005, the Donald P. Eckman award in 2009 and the George S. Axelby award in 2011. In 2009 he co-chaired the International Conference Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'09), in 2012 he was program co-chair for the 3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys'12), and he is program co-chair for the 2015 IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems. He also served on the editorial board of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. His latest book, on verification and control of hybrid systems, was published by Springer in 2009.
Host: Prof. Ashutosh Nayyar and the Ming Hsieh Institute
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Annie Yu
